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In commemoration of the 15th anniversary of The Powerpuff Girls' premiere on Japanese TV, Parco Museum located on the third floor of the Shibuya Parco Part 1 building will hold a special collaborative exhibition titled "Love Live!

With its pudgy, simplistic character designs and sharp-edged humor dicing up current trends, American animated comedy South Park is about as different from anime as it can be in look and tone. But every now and again the show's focus swings around...

It has been announced that Sayashi Riho will graduate from Morning Musume. '15 on December 31st, 2015, just two days shy of the 5th anniversary of her entrance into the long-running idol group. In January 2011, Sayashi was one of four girls chosen...

Also 1/100 Valkyrie II & VF-4, 1/60 YF-19 & Macross Delta fighters Bandai previewed its annual Tamashii Nation showcase event to the press on Thursday. This year, it unleashed a surge of Macross items, as it ramps up for the upcoming science-ficti...

Although a number of Japanese music labels have been hesitant to embrace YouTube, over the last few years uploads from independent Japanese artists and personalities have reached higher numbers than ever before.

Bubble tea, also called boba, or pearl-tea, had its beginnings in Taiwan but has spread in popularity throughout the world. The creamy milk-tea dotted with chewy, gummy-like tapioca pearls and endless flavor possibilities makes this the perfect sn...

The official website of the Persona 3 anime movies has revealed new details for the for the fourth and final film in the series: Persona 3 the Movie #4: Winter of Rebirth, , releasing on January 23. A brand new visual, the official movie poster, a...

Following Nanase Haruka, Makoto Tachibana and Asahi Shiina, the official website for Kyoto Animation's upcoming film High☆Speed! - Free! Starting Days - has also posted a 25-second fourth special character PV featuring Ikuya Kirishima voiced by Ko...

By Sato . October 28, 2015 . 9:10pm Team Ninja and Square Enix recently announced the release date for the upcoming arcade version of Dissidia Final Fantasy, and they also revealed the latest trailer for the game, which gives us a look at its most...

A recent online poll on Charapedia asked Japanese fans to pick which video game final boss characters they found the most fascinating. Some 10,000 people responded, casting votes for their favorite among a list of 49 final boss candidates.

Recently, the United Nations' Special Envoy on Child Protection, Maud de Boer-Buquicchio, has begun to discuss the banning of manga that "depicts sexual images of children in Japanese manga. " She adds, "I accept that the freedom of expression arg...

A trailer for NieR: Automata has surfaced from the recent Paris Games Week presentation, exhibiting some classic swordplay and bound to entertain those enthused by mindless hack'n'slash gameplay, though many are curious if the title will feature a...

Arashi top the album chart with their latest studio album "Japonism" (820,208 copies sold). This number exceed the first week sales of their 2009 best-of album "All the Best! 1999-2009" which eventually sold 1.

Today, NoitaminA revealed its plans to air the "Boku Dake ga Inai Machi" (or "The Town Where Only I am Missing") anime series during its 2015 winter lineup. The series is based on the manga by Kei Sanbe.

Masahito Sato IBARAKI (TR) - Ibaraki Prefectural Police have arrested a 51-year-old man who allegedly dug a hole in the floor of his apartment in Tskuba City in order sexually assault his female neighbor living in the unit below, reports Nippon Ne...

Marvelous and life-like doll-makers Orient Industry are teaming up to bring one of its characters, Rinka Kagurazaka, to life with her own Link a Doll. [Thanks, Game Jouhou. ] AS shown in the video, the Rinka Link A Doll comes with features like th...

In 2008 Warner Brothers and Appian Way acquired the rights to produce an American film adaptation of Madhouse's 1993 anime film Jubei Ninpucho, widely known as "Ninja Scroll. " Evidently as recently as 2012 Dracula Untold director Gary Shore was s...

Model Rinka has announced that she will be moving to Hawaii. In an interview for fashion magazine "Otona Muse" (December edition), Rinka revealed that she will live in Hawaii for two years. "I never imagined it myself," she said.

Oct29 She won't bite unless there's a bone A family curse. . . no wait, a cursed dog! . . . and a cursed painting! . . . and a creepy house! It's like listening to a 6 year old try to tell a spooky story on Halloween and just mashing a bunch of cr...

The Playstation Vita JRPG Atelier Escha & Logy Plus, is now available for pre-purchase for the North American release. For a little less than the cost of a AAA game, you will receive a premium copy of the game, an 18″x24″ poster, a 36 paged, full ...

Hamasaki Ayumi has returned to using her official Twitter account. On October 26, it was reported that Hamasaki's Twitter account had been taken over by her staff. Many of her fans were angered by the fact that all of her previous tweets had been ...

2 Flares Twitter 0 Facebook 2 Google+ 0 Reddit 0 Buffer 0 StumbleUpon 0 2 Flares × After years of being apart, surely you would want to hug someone dear to you, right? And that is exactly what happened to Taichi and Agumon when they meet again for...

By Jenni . October 28, 2015 . 11:00am Ghostlight LTD handled the Windows PC release of Mugen Souls on Steam and will be bringing the title's add-ons to the platform starting October 29. To prepare people for the launch, the company has revealed ho...

Hello everyone, Kahotan here! (@gsc_kahotan) My best kind of daifuku are mame daifuku! There was a store in Kyoto that made the most delicious and beautiful looking mame daifuku. . . I really feel like one right now!

As already known widely, the live house Ishinomaki performance of X JAPAN which is to be conducted on November 28th is to be a charity concert for the rebuilding after the earthquake, and a ticket auction of this concert is being conducted from fe...

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